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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds;
[syn: water chinquapin, American lotus, yanquapin, Nelumbo lutea]

2. edible nutlike seeds of an American lotus having the flavor of a chinquapin;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Water chinquapin \Wa"ter chin"qua*pin\ (Bot.) The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

water chinquapin n 1: water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds [syn: water chinquapin, American lotus, yanquapin, Nelumbo lutea] 2: edible nutlike seeds of an American lotus having the flavor of a chinquapin